Fleury said they went to buy drugs together at a Lynn Rite Aid and said he'd done the same drug run with Mendez twice before.

"He said he would pick her up at her house, they would drive to the Rite Aid on Lewis Street, she would call somebody, he would give her the money, she would go get the drugs and come back," Lynn Item reporter Cyrus Moulton said.

Moulton came face-to-face with Fleury. As the level 3 sex offender was leaving Lynn Police Headquarters, Fleury told Molton it was the third time he's been questioned in the case.

He also said he didn't do it.

"He knows people think he did it, and I think that was a big motivation for him wanting to speak," Moulton said.

Fleury called Mendez a friend and called her his "go-between" with a local drug dealer.

Fleury said the last time he saw Jaimee Mendez was last Thursday night after she had handed him his heroin. She was walking away from his car.

"She left, walked back in the direction of the Rite Aid, he didn't know where," Moulton said. "He went home and used."

He's also had eight restraining orders taken out against him since 2002.

Fleury calls himself a petty criminal. He said police should be focusing on the drug dealer who Mendez was with that night, but went on to add, "I don't blame (the family) for being angry, they've got to take blame on somebody and a level 3 sex offender is a hell of a target," Moulton said Fleury said.